Black Women Legacies From the American Revolution & Beyond

The Clinton County America 250 Commission, in partnership with SUNY Plattsburgh’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, will host historian Dr. Alexandria Russell for a public lecture on Thursday, September 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Dr. Russell will discuss the legacies of Black women during the American Revolution and beyond. She is the author of Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen (University of Illinois Press, 2024). She recently began serving as executive director of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail and is a non-resident W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

In addition, Dr. Russell is founder of Black Women Legacies, a nonprofit organization that supports digitally mapping historic and contemporary memorials of Black women across the globe. She completed her undergraduate studies at the College of Charleston and…